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http://www.deadmaneating.com/office-design-neednt-be-rocket-science/#respondFri, 27 Nov 2015 16:55:18 +0000http://www.deadmaneating.com/?p=12There’s no law against bad office design, but after a talk with Philadelphia-based graphic designer Allan Wright, you can’t help but think it’s a crime. After a recent visit to a client’s very corporate, very bland headquarters, he had this to say: “We found people stuck in little booths with no natural light. Everything was horrible.”

His colleague Michele Armstrong agreed: “I felt like crying when I left the place.”

Some may accuse Wright and Armstrong of holding non-artist types to lofty standards; after all, why does an accounting firm, for example, have to be pretty? How …

]]>There’s no law against bad office design, but after a talk with Philadelphia-based graphic designer Allan Wright, you can’t help but think it’s a crime. After a recent visit to a client’s very corporate, very bland headquarters, he had this to say: “We found people stuck in little booths with no natural light. Everything was horrible.”

His colleague Michele Armstrong agreed: “I felt like crying when I left the place.”

Some may accuse Wright and Armstrong of holding non-artist types to lofty standards; after all, why does an accounting firm, for example, have to be pretty? How …